Onions and Related Plants Guide for Growers
Terri Gabriel discusses the onion family including onions garlic chives and shallots. The column covers cultivation from sets and seed timing spacing mulching and indoor starter steps with varieties such as Crystal Wax Bermuda and Fiesta Spanish. Readers are invited to write to Box 94 Ringoes NJ 08551.
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Bermuda
Terri Gabriell
Ringoes
Terri Gabriel
Winter frosts injure apples reveal rootstock resilience
Emily Hoover of the University of Minnesota reports on apple tree winter injury and rootstock hardiness at fruit industry meetings. Late frosts compound damage, with Paularéd and Cortland proving highly hardy and Summerred about 90 percent. Jonagold remains average in winter hardiness. field tests in Minnesota support reliability of results over lab freezes.
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University of Minnesota Cooperative Extension Service
Eastern Wisconsin Fruit School
Growers Association
Hoover
New York
McIntosh
Paularéd
Cortland
Europe
United States
Ms. Hoover
Minnesota
Landscape Maintenance course offered in four UW Extension sessions
The four session Landscape Maintenance course covers turf trees shrubs and flowers with instruction on insect and disease problems. Edward Hasselkus leads tree and shrub care with focus on planting staking mulching pruning and weed control. Robert Newman and Lois Berg join to cover turf and herbaceous ornamentals with Gayle Wolf on plant diseases and Daniel Mahr on insect issues. Sessions run February 4 11 18 25 from 8 to 9 50 pm at the Statewide Extension Education Network with a $20 registration.
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Edward Hasselkus
Hasselkus
Robert Newman
Lois Berg
Gayle Wolf
Northern Fruit School planned at Chippewa
The UW Extension Northern Fruit School meets on Wednesday February 13 at the Flame Supper Club. Fruit growers will learn growing management techniques with topics on planting wildlife damage abatement rootstock and cultivars fruit thinners and mites. Speakers include UW Extension specialists Bob Tomesh Scott Hygstrom Dan Mahr and Elden Stang with Doug Shefelbine and Wm Lord also speaking. The $4 registration covers materials and brochures. Mail checks to Bob Tomesh UW River Falls River Falls 54022.
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Uw-Extension
Northern Fruit School
Uw-Ex
Bob Tomesh
Scott Hygstrom
Dan Mahr
Elden Stang
Doug Shefelbine
Amherst University
Wm. Lord
Plant and Earth Science
UW River Falls
River Falls
Farm finance squeeze topic on Spectrum 28 talk show
Spectrum 28 will air a two part program Feb 1 and Feb 2 examining the financial squeeze on West Central Wisconsin farmers. Host Tom Quinn of the Wisconsin Farm Unity Alliance leads with Karyn Schauf founder of Barron County Women in Agriculture and co chair Judy Ahlberg. The Women in Agriculture group consists largely of farm women. The broadcast runs Friday Feb 1 at 9 30 p m and repeats Saturday Feb 2 at 9 30 a m on WHWC TV 28 Menomonie.
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Spectrum
Wisconsin
Tom Quinn
Wisconsin Farm Unity Alliance
Barron County
Women In Agriculture
Karyn Schauf
Judy Ahlberg
Whwc-Tv
Out of
Menomonie
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